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Recommended Reading

Instead of a bio I used to have this following carefully-curated list of books on my About page, in line with the philosophy that a person’s true nature is revealed by their bookshelf. Now I just think they’re good books.

Possession • A. S. Byatt

Atonement • Ian McEwan

Distraction • Bruce Sterling

Master and Commander &c. • Patrick O’Brian

How Buildings Learn • Stewart Brand

A Pattern Language • Christopher Alexander et al.

Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions • John Michell

The Empty Space • Peter Brook

Last Letters from Hav • Jan Morris

A Short History of Nearly Everything • Bill Bryson

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable • Ebenezer Brewer (et al.)

On Food and Cooking • Harold McGee

Little, Big • John Crowley

Classic Italian Cooking • Marcella Hazan

Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type • Geoffrey Dowding